Recent answers to FF15 hangs whenever plugin-container.exe is loaded in memoryhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/9361492013-01-01T12:17:33-08:00TO: christianberg
Adding this Windows environment variable is quite simple: right click My Computer 2013-01-01T12:17:33-08:00Ad_Hochttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/936149#answer-393462<p>TO: christianberg
</p><p>Adding this Windows environment variable is quite simple: right click <em>My Computer</em> ~&amp;gt; left click <em>Properties</em> ~&amp;gt; left click <em>Advanced tab</em> ~&amp;gt; left click <em>Environment Variables</em>. Then select <em>New</em> in the lower pane (<em>System Variables</em>, which are global) ; enter <strong>MOZ_DISABLE_OOP_PLUGINS</strong> in the name field and enter <strong>1</strong> in the value field. Click <em>OK</em> twice to save and exit.
</p><p>To confirm the variable has been added, run CMD.EXE ; once you are in the DOS box, enter <strong>SET</strong> at the prompt and check that the variable is indeed listed and set to 1.
</p><p>Also, consider installing the FF extension Flashblock to run only those Flash-based images you want. (For me, installing the Flash plugin but disabling it, has been a better option: Flash images are blocked unless I enable them by clicking on the disabled plugin warning [see attached JPG image]).
</p>How did you do that? I've also disabled plugincontainer in dom.ipc.plugins.enabled== to false but it2012-12-31T09:54:52-08:00christianhberghttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/936149#answer-393242<p>How did you do that? I've also disabled plugincontainer in dom.ipc.plugins.enabled== to false but it seems the plugincontainer still like to load as usual.
</p><p>My machine is quite stronger than yours with quad cpu's and 8 gigs of ram so those freezing is less frequent for me but sites that are flash-ad heavy still makes my system go down to it's knees.
</p>Solved by blocking the loading of Plugin Container . . .
Searching in the bugzilla.mozilla.org site2012-09-05T21:17:01-07:00Ad_Hochttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/936149#answer-366040<p><b>Solved by blocking the loading of Plugin Container . . .</b>
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Searching in the <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org" rel="nofollow">bugzilla.mozilla.org</a> site for text or attachments on bugs related to <i>dom.ipc.plugins....</i>, I encountered several references to a Windows environment variable <span>MOZ_DISABLE_OOP_PLUGINS</span>, for example in the patch at <a href="http://goo.gl/jYJKL" rel="nofollow">http://goo.gl/jYJKL</a>. I then added this variable to the Windows 7 system environment of my machine setting it to 1. It works : FF15 no longer loads plugin container (and therefore does not hang) when visiting web pages that before froze the browser.<p>NB : As I discovered shortly thereafter in googling this environment variable, this method of blocking the loading of plugin container was already reported 3 weeks ago by <b>big_v</b> in the Mozilla support forum, <a href="http://goo.gl/v7prA" rel="nofollow">http://goo.gl/v7prA</a>. Chapeau.
</p>I do not know. Will try it. (Good question; and a scary one too: since the crash still occurs with2012-09-05T07:38:28-07:00Ad_Hochttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/936149#answer-365854<p>I do not know. Will try it. (Good question; and a scary one too: since the crash still occurs with the Startup list cleared, if it does not happen in the OS' Safe Mode, then it would likely be a conflict with some code, such as an original DLL or driver, that was later modified by some application, and this will take a lot of time and effort to solve.) <b>Thank you, cor-el.</b>
</p><p>BTW, since the <i>dom.ipc.plugins.enabled==false</i> alternative for the earlier FF versions using Plugin Contain does not seem to work in v 14 &amp;amp; 15, since plugin container continues to load in my machine even though I have toggled to <i>false</i> those configuration settings, do I take it that now Mozilla has closed to door to the OOPP alternative of running without the container (with tested and trusted extensions)?
</p>Does this also happen if you boot the computer in Windows Safe mode with network support (press F8 o2012-09-03T04:14:43-07:00cor-elhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/936149#answer-365251<p>Does this also happen if you boot the computer in Windows Safe mode with network support (press F8 on the boot screen) as a test?
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